Word: torches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold the torch of leadership and carry it forward, into whose hands will it fall? I cannot think that the Divine Providence . . . has permitted us to become the responsible leaders of the world . . . only to break that hope." Then, with tears in his eyes he moved into a peroration that the Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead...
...reached. But progress has been made ... we know that these goals are not achieved all at once. Mankind moves forward by little steps ... if we never lose sight of that goal and every step takes us one inch closer to it, then that is progress. We are carrying a torch. We are carrying a fire. We are not carrying ashes...
Died. Guy Bridges Kibbee, 70, bottle-bald comedian of stage (Torch Song) and screen (Babbitt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), best known to moviegoers for his "Scattergood Baines" series and early Shirley Temple films; of Parkinson's disease; in East Islip...
...visitors who toured the White House that day with Hilda Marie Marks brushed closer to history than they realized. As far as could be determined, no one else had come to set the place afire since the British put the torch...
...later was called to Manhattan. There he performed a bewildering array of duties as pastor and prior of St. Catherine of Siena Church, national director of the Holy Name Society, editor of the Holy Name Journal, national director of the Third Order of St. Dominic, founder-editor of the Torch. He not only could get along on five hours of sleep, but he also developed a flair for handling his delinquent parishioners. On Saturday nights he would make the rounds of the neighborhood bars, eye a backslider and say: "Shouldn't you go to confession tonight so that...